Message-Id: <199807030120.SAA33162@dns.ccit.arizona.edu> Date: Thu, 2 Jul 1998 13:21:46 -0400 From: Gay Tracy <mailto:tracy@NEDCC.ORG> Subject: REFORMATTING VISUAL MATERIALS To: mailto:IMAGELIB@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU
Afterimages: Reformatting Visual Materials in a Digital World Presented by the Northeast Document Conservation CenterSeptember 16, 17 and 18, 1998 At the National Archives and Records Administration Archives II, College Park, Maryland
The conference is funded by the National Park Service Cultural Resources Training Initiative and is co-sponsored by the National Archives and Records Administration. The Northeast Document Conservation Center is an organization that receives funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities.
What is Afterimages? Afterimages is a course designed to teach managers of picture collections how to plan and manage projects to reformat endangered visual materials, including deteriorating cellulose acetate and cellulose nitrate negatives for both black and white and color images. Archives, historical societies, libraries, and museums often hold large collections of photographs and other visual materials, many of which are fragile or relatively inaccessible. Reformatting these images either digitally or photographically can limit future damage to original images, while increasing access to them either over the Web or in other publication forms. The program includes hands-on experience and will teach skills for: 1. planning and managing reformatting projects for visual materials, including contracting an outside vendor; 2. selecting and preparing collections for reformatting, including preservation issues and care and handling; 3. selecting and evaluating copy technologies: including when to make digital copies and when to make photographic copies; 4. understanding best practices, benchmarks, and quality control for color and black and white photographs and digital imaging; 5. ensuring sound cost benefit analysis and containment; and 6. managing contracts, and legal issues.
The sessions will introduce photographic duplication options and digital imaging technologies and compare their commonalties and differences.
Who should attend? If you are an archivist, curator, historic preservation specialist, librarian, or other cultural resources manager dealing with collections including photographic materials, you will be interested in attending Afterimages.
Who are the faculty? Karen Brown, Northeast Document Conservation Center; Joan Gatewood, New York Public Library; David Joyall, Northeast Document Conservation Center; Melissa Smith Levine, Library of Congress; Richard Pearce Moses, Heard Museum; Mary Panzer, National Portrait Gallery; Steve Puglia, National Archives and Records Administration; Andrew Robb, Library of Congress; Diane Vogt-O Connor, National Park Service.
What does the conference cost? The cost of the conference is $275.00. All participants are responsible for their meal, travel, and lodging costs. The deadline to register is September 1, 1998. To request a flier and registration material, contact Gay Tracy, Northeast Document Conservation Center, 100 Brickstone Square, Andover, MA 01810-1494; (978) 470-1010; mailto:<tracy@nedcc.org>.
Gay S. Tracy Public Relations Coordinator Northeast Document Conservation Center 100 Brickstone Square Andover MA 01810-1494 Tel 978 470-1010 Fax 978 475-6021 mailto:<tracy@nedcc.org> www.nedcc.org